Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1773.04.12

NYGWPB.773.003
12 Apr 1773:32 (1565)
Theatre.  By permission of his excellency the governor, by
the American Company, on Wednesday next, being the 14th of
April, the theatre in John-Street, will be opened with a
comedy, an occasional prologue, a farce, and entertainments,
which will be expressed in the bills for the day.
It may be necessary to inform the public, that as the season
is so very far advanced, it will not be possible to keep the
house open longer than the end of May.